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LINUX : HISTORY: 1. 1991 Linus Torvalds writes a small ( minimal functionality and only supported Minix file system) self-contained kernel for the 80386. Linus originally started hacking the kernel as a pet project, inspired by his interest in Minix, a small UNIX system developed by Andy Tanenbaum. He set out to create, in his own words, "a better Minix than Minix". And after some time of working on this project by himself, he made this posting to : Do you pine for the nice days of , when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs?

• LINUX was not designed to be used on a large scale commercial computing type of machine. Even though hardware performance was one of the design precepts, the underlying influence of UNIX cannot be forgotten (forgiven?). • LINUX was designed to cater to multiprogrammed

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